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SHARE at 2015 APPAM Fall Research Conference

The 2015 Fall Research Conference for the Association for Public Policy Analysis & Management (APPAM) Conference is occurring this week in Miami, FL. The conference’s theme is “The Golden Age of Evidence-Based Policy” to showcase the importance of high quality evaluation practices. We are pleased to highlight a panel on Early Data on Health Care Utilization after Coverage Expansion that features four different SHARE-funded analyses.

• The Effect of Early Medicaid Expansion in California on Safety Net Hospital Utilization
  Peter Cunningham and Lindsay Sabik utilize the Healthcare Cost and Utilization Project (HCUP), the American Hospital Association annual survey, and the Area Health Resource File to examine the effects of California’s early ACA coverage expansions on inpatient and emergency department utilization of safety net hospitals.
   
• The Effects of Expanding Public Insurance on Utilization: Early Results from Wisconsin
  Marguerite Burns, Thomas DeLeire, and others present private claims data and Medicaid enrollment files to measure changes in health care utilization after enrollment into a public insurance program for low-income childless adults in Wisconsin.
   
• Pent-up Health Care Demand after the Affordable Care Act (ACA)
  Angie Fertig, Caroline Carlin, and Sharon Long use private claims data to examine whether there is evidence of pent-up demand for health care among newly-insured adults in individual and family health insurance plans and Medicaid under the ACA in Minnesota.
   
• Early Effects of the 2014 Medicaid Expansion on Coverage and Access to Care
  Michael Dworsky and Christine Eibner present a pre-post analysis using the 2014 National Health Interview Survey (NHIS) to examine the short-run effects of the ACA Medicaid expansion on insurance coverage, access to care, and health status among the expansion population, comparing outcomes for expansion and non-expansion states.

The panel chair is Katherine Hempstead, Director and Senior Program Officer for SHARE at the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, and the discussant is SHADAC Senior Research Fellow, Brett Fried. The panel takes place on Thursday, November 12, from 3:30pm-5:00pm. 

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Open Enrollment 3: SHADAC Library of Marketplace Enrollment Reports

SHADAC will aggregate State-Based Marketplace (SBM) enrollment reports released during the third Affordable Care Act (ACA) Open Enrollment Period (November 1, 2015, to January 31, 2016) and post them to our marketplace enrollment reports library. 

Federal Reports Also Available

Our marketplace enrollment reports library will also incorporate federal enrollment reports for both Federally Facilitated Marketplaces (FFM) and State-Based Marketplaces, as well as for Medicaid and the Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP).

Please check this page regularly, as we actively search for new reports and update the website frequently. 

Reports from Earlier Enrollment Periods

You can also visit the enrollment reports library to access state and federal reports covering the first and second Open and Special Enrollment Periods (October 1, 2013, to November 14, 2014, and November 15, 2014, to February 15, 2015, respectively).

What Can I Do with this Data?

Enrollment reports are useful in understanding, monitoring, or evaluating:

1. The variation in information collected during the marketplace application process;
2. Differences in state approaches to public reporting of enrollment data; and
3. Potential analyses that could be conducted using data the states collected.

The Enrollment Rodeo: Who’s Galloped in and Who will be Lassoed Next?

Elizabeth Lukanen disscussed Medicaid Expansion on a panel titled, "The Enrollment Rodeo: Who's Galloped in and Who will be Lassoed Next?" at the 2015 NASHP Annual Conference in October.

View a PDF of the presentation slides here

 

Medicaid Expansion: Stalking New Ground and Corralling Cost Savings

Donna Spencer disscussed Medicaid Expansion on a panel titled, "Medicaid Expansion: Staking New Ground and Corralling Cost Savings," at the 2015 NASHP Annual Conference in October.

View a PDF of the presentation slides

 

 

Exploring State Choices in Benefit Design for Medicaid Expansion Populations

Colin Planalp lead a lunch roundtable discussion on the topic of alternative benefit plans (ABPs) at the 2015 NASHP Annual Conference.

View a PDF of his presentation handout

 

For more information about Alternative Benefit Plans, please visit www.shadac.org/ABPslides